"boyhood" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbɔɪˌhʊd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-boyhood.wav [US] Forms: boyhoods [plural]
Etymology: From boy + -hood. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|boy|hood}} boy + -hood Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} boyhood (countable and uncountable, plural boyhoods)
  1. The state or period of being a boy. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: good old boyhood Translations (The state or period of being a boy): ল’ৰালি (lörali) (Assamese), کوڕێتی (kurrêtî) (Central Kurdish), knabeco (Esperanto), poikuus (Finnish), nenez [feminine] (Galician), სიყრმე (siq̇rme) (Georgian), ересектік (eresektık) (Kazakh), момчештво (momčeštvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), chłopięctwo [neuter] (Polish), lata chłopięce [neuter, plural] (Polish), meninice [feminine] (Portuguese), о́трочество (ótročestvo) [neuter] (Russian), дечаштво [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), niñez [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "The state or period of being a boy",
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      "word": "о́трочество"
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      "code": "sh",
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